For a complete orthonormal basis of , the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis identifies the sum of the feature products with . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives absolute convergence.
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Integration by parts gives the Fourier sine series coefficientsHenceThe odd periodic extension is a sawtooth, equal to on and repeated every ; its jumps at odd multiples of have midpoint value zero in the Fourier series. In particular the sine series equals zero, rather than the specified endpoint value , at . The even periodic extension is the continuous triangular wave equal to on . Their sketches are below.
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Choose an orthonormal basis of the separable Hilbert space and independent standard normal random variables on a common probability space. In finite dimension the sums below are finite; in dimension zero take . In infinite dimension defineIndependence, centring and unit variance giveBy the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis, the coefficient sequence is square-summable. Completeness of therefore supplies a limit, and we defineEvery partial-sum map is linear, and passage to the limit preserves this identity. Thus for each fixed , as an identity, hence an almost sure equality. This constructs an isonormal Gaussian process.
The usual meaning is almost-sure linearity for each fixed choice of arguments. A version linear simultaneously for every argument can also be chosen: select a Hamel basis of , choose a measurable representative of on each basis vector, and extend each sample algebraically by finite sums. For every fixed , this extension equals the constructed variable almost surely, so all its required distributions are unchanged.
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For the construction above, independence of the normal random variables makes normal with mean zero and variance . Its characteristic function is . The convergence gives convergence, andSince by the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis, the limiting characteristic function identifiesThis includes , where the normal distribution is degenerate at zero.
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Put . The deterministic derivative is , and , while . The Itô product rule with a deterministic smooth function givesAlmost every Brownian path is continuous, hence belongs to . Its Fourier coefficient in the given orthonormal basis is therefore . The Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis gives, pathwise on a probability-one event,This is the squared-norm consequence of the Brownian half-integer sine expansion; completeness, rather than pointwise convergence of a Fourier series, is all that is needed.
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In the real Hilbert space , let . Then . The Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis givesThe series is absolutely convergent by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, since and . Thusthe Brownian covariance kernel. This is the Brownian covariance from an integrated orthonormal basis.
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Assume (iii), and let . Choose such thatfor every . Coordinate convergence implies, for every finite ,Letting shows that the corresponding tail of is also at most .
By the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis,The finite first sum tends to zero by weak coordinate convergence, while the second is at mostSince is arbitrary, . Thus (iii) implies (i), completing the equivalence and proving the uniform basis-tail criterion for strong convergence.
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It also implies (iii). Given , choose so thatBy the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis, choose so that the basis tail of beyond is less than . For and ,There are only finitely many , so increasing makes each of their tails less than . Thus one works for every , proving (iii).
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Factor as in part b(v). Then Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality giveThe defining series for the operator trace is therefore absolutely convergent and satisfies .
For unit vectors , the adjoint operator of is , andHence and part b(iii), followed by Parseval, givesScaling proves . A second use of Parseval yieldswhich proves the asserted rank-one operator formulas.
